Adobe 65015459 User Guide - Page 186

ADOBE CONTRIBUTE CS3 180 User Guide • "Alternative website addresses" on page 180 • "Connection keys" on page 181 Web server index pages The index page for a website is the default web page that appears when a visitor enters a website (such as www.mysite.com) but doesn't specify a page on the website. A web server can be configured to look for a page with a particular filename if no page is specified; the most common default index page filenames are index.htm, index.html, default.htm, and default.html. If you are unsure of the index page filenames that your web server uses, see your web server's documentation. In addition to the primary index page filename, most web servers are configured with alternative index page filenames, specifying pages to be displayed if there is no page with the filename requested as the primary index page. Note: Index pages are available only for websites. Blogs do not use index pages. For example, a web server might look for the following index page names (in this order): 1 index.htm 2 index2.htm 3 404error.htm If is a page is named index.htm, the server sends that page to the browser to be displayed; if such a page isn't present, the server sends index2.htm to the browser. If neither of those index pages is available, the server sends the 404error.htm page to the browser. Secondary pages such as these often provide an alternative entrance to the website or inform the visitor that the website is unavailable. Contribute includes a list of popular index page filenames, using most of the popular document type extensions (.htm, .html, .cfm, .asp, .jsp, .php, and so on). If the index page filename that you use for your website is listed in the Index files section of the Index and URL Mapping dialog box (index.cfm, for example), you can most likely ignore this configuration option. If, however, your index page filenames are not included among those listed in the dialog box, you must add your index page filenames to the list, and arrange the names in the order in which your web server is configured to look for them. For example, if your website uses an Adobe ColdFusion application server that uses the document type extension .cfm, and the index page for your website uses the filename main.cfm, add the filename main.cfm to the list of index pages in the Index and URL Mapping dialog box, and list that filename as the first page that Contribute should find on the website. "Adding index page filenames" on page 195 explains how to add an index page filename to your Contribute settings. Alternative website addresses Web servers can be configured in a variety of ways to respond to varying user needs. One common part of web server configuration is the mapping of web addresses to either different IP addresses (often for either load balancing or localization issues), or multiple web addresses pointing to a single IP address. The following common web server configurations involve URL mapping: Multiple DNS aliasing occurs when two or more domain name server (DNS) aliases point to a single server (for our purposes, a single server consists of a single IP address). When connecting to a server configured with multiple DNS aliases, Contribute views the defined website and the aliases as separate websites, even though they are the same from the users' perspective.